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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Strange Aeons => Topic started by: superflytnt on 22 October 2012, 02:44:43 PM

Title: The Haunted Cross And Other Scenes...
Post by: superflytnt on 22 October 2012, 02:44:43 PM
I was sodding about with some Scenes of Despair (sounds better than terror and reminds me of the Princess Bride) and thus far, I've come up with the following:

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/76848_373302639416352_359219139_n.jpg)
"The Haunted Cross" is a Sculpey base, with a CNC Workshop cross that's been bathed in lightweight spackle for rust scale. The arms are off of a bunch of spare parts, painted with a light blue to look "spectral", a bit of airbrush to highlight.

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/9311_373303649416251_766640477_n.jpg)
Next up is the "Well Of The Damned", which is nothing more than a JR Miniatures resin-cast well with a giant, purple mass of tentacular goodness erupting from it's mouth. Again, it's nothing more than modelling clay turned sinister.

(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/522764_373303276082955_255340281_n.jpg)
The third Scene, "The Tainted Well" is the second well in the JR Miniatures 2-pack of resin-cast wells, but this time set atop a Sculpey base. I debated with flocking and/or putting some moss on the steps a bit, but in the end decided against as I wanted it to look like a cursed hill. The blood in the well is blended, dark in the center and lighter as it goes outward but the picture didn't do it much justice. I had thought I'd use a Dow Corning Silastic mold-making RTV with a little red in it to fill, it looks better than the "Realistic Water" for these sorts of things. In the end, I opted to go with simpler due to the volume of work I had to do in order to get SA on the table.

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/68313_372880206125262_134991268_n.jpg)
The last up is my "Yig's Bonbons" scene. Someone here had posted a crate that's similar, in white metal, and they wanted around 15 quid for it. If you consider the price and shipment to the USA, I figured it would be cheaper to just make it.  So, I chopped tongue depressors in lengths and simply made it myself. There's cardboard inserts inside, painted with a black magic marker, in order to obscure the inside (and allow me to only paint the exterior!) and the limbs are from  Heroclix and Heroscape figures.





Title: Re: The Haunted Cross And Other Scenes...
Post by: Mason on 22 October 2012, 03:39:49 PM
Some good ideas going on there.

You fellas are shaming me inton getting my own 'Scenes of *' finished.
My own collection is seriously lacking in that regard.



*Whatever you choose to call them.
 ;)

Title: Re: The Haunted Cross And Other Scenes...
Post by: styx on 22 October 2012, 04:08:19 PM
Great stuff! I have to crank out some scenes of horror soon!
Title: Re: The Haunted Cross And Other Scenes...
Post by: cuchulain23 on 25 October 2012, 05:31:27 AM
I really like the crate with the arms sticking out.